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unusual facts about Humour



Aerican Empire

The group's activities are permeated by a great deal of humour and a love of science fiction and fantasy, with recurrent references to Star Wars, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and similar works.

Andrew Goatly

He is the author of The Language of Metaphors, and Critical Reading and Writing, published by Routledge, Washing the Brain: the hidden ideology of metaphor, published by John Benjamins, Explorations in Stylistics, published by Equinox and Meaning and Humour, published by Cambridge University Press.

Andrew R. Heinze

His first full-length play, Turtles All the Way Down, although unproduced, was praised by Soho Theatre (London) as "an accomplished first effort...sharp and highly enjoyable... very theatrical: fast moving with lots of humour." His second full-length play, The Invention of the Living Room, was a Finalist for the 2012 Blue Ink Playwriting Award given by the American Blues Theater in Chicago and was presented in a public reading by the Orlando Shakespeare Theater (2011).

Bleeding Oath

They have gained notoriety for their large Facebook campaigns, as well as their irreverent attitude and self-deprecating humour, as evidenced by the group and its fans getting artists from various major groups, including Andrew W.K., DragonForce, Jason Aalon Butler of letlive. and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth (who the band are heavily influenced by) to tell them, in jest, to "fuck off".

Brian Bloodaxe

The game is notable for its esoteric humour which was strongly influenced by the humour of sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, its in-game music (The "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa, better known to most as the Flying Circus theme tune), and colourful graphics.

Chris While

In December 2001 Chris and Julie joined forces with Chris Leslie and David Hughes to form the Christmas project St Agnes Fountain, which combined original music, unique arrangements of classic seasonal songs, with a good deal of humour.

Comic timing

Here, the humour is derived both from rapid speech and rapid movement — people running into and out of rooms at breakneck speed and managing to cause havoc in the process as done to perfection in the series Fawlty Towers.

Flavio Insinna

He had his first unsuccessful TV sitcom, Rai Uno's Cotti e mangiati ("Cooked and Eaten"), and presented Affari Tuoi (the Italian Deal or No Deal) from 2006 until June 6, 2008, where his unique humour and profound thoughts proved popular with viewers and contestants alike.

Frances Crane

Her husband was the wealthy advertising executive Ned Crane, and throughout their marriage Frances regularly published articles in The New Yorker, where she became known for her dry, sophisticated sense of humour.

François Pérusse

He received the last 3 annual Ruban d'or from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters in the humour category, which are amongst the most prestigious of the awards for radio broadcasting in Canada.

Frantic

Frantic Magazine, a monthly humour and parody magazine, published in the UK by Marvel UK from 1979 to 1980

Frédéric Boilet

His encounter with Benoît Peeters in 1990 turned his work toward semi-autobiographical stories tinged with humour : Love Hotel (1993), Tôkyô est mon jardin (1997) and Demi-tour (1997).

G. S. Khaparde

He become popular by way of his wit, humour and mannerisum and hence some news-paper described him as Mark Twain.

Galenskaparna och After Shave

The group is influenced a lot by the humour of both Monty Python and Hasseåtage, as well as Povel Ramel (in terms of his musical humour and playfulness with texts and lyrics), and also the physical comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

George Baxt

His most notable screenplays include three collaborations with director Sidney Hayers noted for their taut suspense and black humour: Circus of Horrors (1960), the thriller Payroll (1961) from the novel by Derek Bickerton and Night of the Eagle (1962) which he re-wrote following a draft by Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, though his credit was omitted from the US version which was released as Burn, Witch, Burn.

Georges Bordonove

His biographies, such as those of the kings of France, are characterised by short, dense chapters packed with detail including a potentially bewildering array of names and the citation of recorded conversations, sometimes in Old French with translations, but showing an evident sympathy for the subject, a desire to make a complete picture of his life and thought, and some sly humour.

Henry Austin Dobson

He has been compared with Randolph Caldecott, with which it has much in common; but Dobson's humour was not so "rollicking" and his portraiture not so broad as that of the illustrator of John Gilpin.

Janet and John

The radio and television broadcaster Terry Wogan regularly satirised the series on his BBC Radio 2 show Wake Up To Wogan by reading out stories clearly based on the premise of the original Janet and John books, but deriving humour through euphemism and innuendo.

Jim Kokoris

Kokoris has also contributed humour articles to the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, and Reader's Digest, among other publications.

John Greville Fennell

This is a discursive attempt at the humorous style in writing on angling topics, which was at that time fashionable.

Julian Myerscough

A recent publication: "Fragson: The Triumphs and the Tragedy" by Andrew Lamb and Julian Myerscough (ISBN 0-9524149-4-5) about the celebrated Anglo-French entertainer Harry Fragson is typical of the authors' insight, academic rigour and good humour.

Karen MacInerney

Karen MacInerney (born 1970) is an American novelist who writes two genre book series - one a cozy mystery series about a bed and breakfast owner in an island community off the coast of Maine, the other a paranormal series with a strong streak of humour, about an accountant trying to ignore the werewolf gene she has inherited from her father.

Keeping Mum

While Walter is preparing his sermon for the conference, Grace introduces him to having a sense of humour to his religion and also teaching him that he can still love his wife as well as God by drawing his attention to the erotic references in the Song of Solomon.

Krakonoš a lyžníci

Of course, the border police are constantly attempting to catch this man, so the two boys soon find themselves wound up in rather complex situation, all portrayed with a great sense of humour.

Leighton Rees

Over a lager and a cigar he told presenter Fred Trueman, in his soon to be famous brand of dry humour, stories about himself and Evans hustling the English.

Leo Maslíah

The Konex Foundation of Argentina awarded him "Merit for humour in literature" in 1994.

Living with Lions

The film balances pain of various injuries to Rob Howley, Will Greenwood and Doddie Weir, the tensions within the camp (Barry Williams fighting with Mark Regan), the humour of John Bentley's visit to the gym, and finally jubilation after victory in the second test.

Louis-José Houde

Recently Houde has broken into acting in feature films, such as Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006), De père en flic (Fathers and Guns, 2009) and Le Sense de l'humour.

Maria Rose

A fictional Alfred Hitchcock introduced and concluded each of the stories with a dark humour he is famous for.

Mord mit Aussicht

Much of the humour of the series derives from the clichés of both city and provincial lives, in a similar manner to the English comedy crime series Midsomer Murders.

MTV Reality Stars

The humour and the look and feel of the show were in the space of Bollywood movies Delhi Belly and Pyaar Ka Punchnama.

Owe Thörnqvist

His musical style spans over both rock, rumba and calypso, and he has also written pastiches of American popular music; his texts are characterised by word play and humour.

Paaras

The project was founded in 2002 by a team of scholars, writers & journalists including Shah Baleeghuddin and Ibtehaj Khurram, under the leadership of internationally renowned Pakistani-Canadian intellectual and a former member of Pakistan’s parliament Shah Baleeghuddin, Paaras publishes an interesting mix of contents including integrating commentaries on current affairs, in-depth coverage of critical issues, humour and poetry.

Postolar Tripper

Humour and eccentric usage of the rural elements in their music was also a characteristic of their fourth single, "Čuvaj se sinjske ruke", also used in the film of the same name, by Bore Lee.

Remember My Name

The review also praises how Rudolph "embellishes his film with sardonic humour", and the "comically macabre touch" of TV news in the background of disasters such as an earthquake that killed 1 million in Budapest.

S. B. Khanthan

Khanthan was introduced to humour through decades of association with friend and humourist, Shri Crazy Mohan and to basics of Visual Communication through cinematographer, P. C. Sreeram.

Sara-Marie Fedele

She released a humour book, a CD single (a cover of "I'm So Excited", titled "I'm So Excited (The Bum Dance)" - with The Sirens), and a line of sleepwear after leaving the Big Brother House, was a Housemate in Australian Celebrity Big Brother in 2002, and later a presenter on children's television series, Totally Wild.

Stan Marks

Stan Marks has given radio talks over BBC, CBC (Canada) and Australian Broadcasting Commission and to numerous groups, schools and organisations on many topics, particularly humour in all its forms.

Summerton Mill

Although the series is made very much in the style of Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms, much of the background humour is in a similar vein to that of Aardman Animation's Creature Comforts.

Sunday Sport

Following the departure of editor-in-chief Tony Livesey in August 2006, the paper moved towards more showbiz content spiced with sex, glamour and unique humour.

The Sparagus Garden

Tom and his servant Coulter are from "Zumerzetshire," and inject into the play the kind of dialect humour typical of Brome's drama (Yorkshire dialect in The Northern Lass, Lancashire dialect in The Late Lancashire Witches).

Trond Kirkvaag

which was inspired by such diverse influences as the absurd humour of Monty Python; the nonsensical, wordy Blackadder; Not the Nine O'Clock News; the childlike mime-esque Mr. Bean, made famous by Rowan Atkinson; and even the slapstick of the silent movie era and the quick-fire wise-cracking of the Marx Brothers.

Uvea

In addition some uveal regions have special functions of great importance, including secretion of the aqueous humour by the ciliary processes, control of accommodation (focus) by the ciliary body, and optimisation of retinal illumination by the iris's control over the pupil.

Vitreous

Vitreous membrane, a layer of collagen separating the vitreous humour from the rest of the eye

William Henry Brookfield

He had the melancholy temperament often associated with humour, and suffered from ill-health, which in 1851 necessitated a voyage to Madeira.

Willie Wilde

She was initially attracted by Willie's humour and wit; however, he spent much of his time in New York's fashionable Lotos Club drinking, gossiping about London Society and reciting parodies of his brother's poems, which strongly suggests that he was jealous of Oscar's success.

Yan Can Cook

Martin's style of presentation is infused with a little bit of humour, with the series shown widely on public television in the United States, on Food Network in Canada and on HTV in Vietnam.


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